First attempt at game music - Feedback please

I've been meaning to post this for some time now since I made this shortly after everyone posted game music demos. Think of this as like soundtrack/cutscene material for a drama movie/game. Friends have said this is vary "Tom Clancy". I was just inspired by those great drama sequences in movies where they show nuclear weaponry as dark monolithics forms or some secret submarine out in the Atlantic on a clear winter night. This is a strong departure from my typical hip hop/rap/r&b stuff. I tried posting this at Garagegames only to get the feedback "Rap sucks". I guess that's what I'd expect from Final Fantasy fanatics :/ Anyhow, comments? I dropped the snare volume and redid the reverb for this mix on a whim.

One Sad Cookie, I know. Even with fancy samples, its hard as hell to get them to sound natural. That part alone took nearly as long as the rest of the song (I sorta just banged the rest out, its still a little rough). I guess it still needs fine tuning

Thanks Greg! I'm always kind of in awe of people who write music because it is such black magic to me I particularly like the opening to harsh (though I do like the whole piece), and hiphopisms sort of sounds like the kind of music I have in mind for a uDevGame entry, though "what I have in mind" is nothing more than a vauge idea of keywords invoked and the stipulations that go with "video game music." Battle beat is actually even closer to what is in my head, though it seems a little too repetitive to me for a music track that would be looping endlessly in the background (it is catchy though).

Do you have any plans for working with a game development team currently? Do you have other plans for your musical direction? I'm only just curious :-)

Plans for working for a game dev team? Nope, I checked around a few times like at GarageGames to see if there were any projects that I could potentially offer help to.

As for musical direction, if I were still in Seattle, I'd probably be producing tracks for underground rap artists and stuff (seeing my first year of college at Art Institute of Seattle pushed me to pick up music). I've been meaning to actually complete a few songs myself, I was hoping I could find some girl to sing next year (since I'll be attending U of O) to produce a few R&B tracks for the hell of it. Its something I've wanted to do for some time now.

Actually I have a new work I outta upload thats back to my usual classical/hip hop joint. Also I decided to seek out a few underground rap artists, I dunno how it'll turn out but a fairly talented artist displayed some interest in making an actual track. Hip hop is kinda neat in the respect of the underground workings.

Anyways to answer your question, I bought some AKAI sample CDs from a guy back when I was in Seattle at the Art Institute for chunk of change. Symphony of Voices is one of the sets I picked up which has some great choir patches, some solos, some group, some more classically "synthetic" sounding choirs. I wish I had the actual booklets and stuff. All he had was the actual discs. I haven't really be able to use them very effectively until recently when I bought a sample conversion app for the PC (which works wonders).

Yeah, I tried banging out "Theme music" because Carlos was looking for a theme song for uDev, I can't do "theme" music. I started composing some moody erie sound before writing it off as something that wouldn't work at all and filing away as something to come back to.

Game music is something thats foriegn to me and I can't seem to make anything that upbeat, happy or basic electronica stuff. It either starts coming out like the militarystuff3-1-1.mp3 or another hip hop beat. I think I'm gonna try for a Medal of Honor/Saving Private Ryan type stuff with some somber sounding brass.

I've been vibin' on this whole classical hip hop thing for some time now ever since I took one of my old works Harsh (see above) and remixed it with improved skills.

First one is new completely new, upbeat and chill. It has a west coast flair to it.

Second one, its taken forever to iron out this damn beat but I *think* I just about have it. Its a bastard since its not a standard 3/4 so sequencing it has been hellish. I took some classical song I heard for the lead, its very inspired but not a ripoff.